Meaning of AUTOMATIC in English

5. "~ blinking of the eyelids" b: acting or done spontaneously or unconsciously c: done or produced as if by machine: mechanical "the answers were ~"

2: having a self-acting or self-regulating mechanism 3 of a firearm: using either gas pressure or force of recoil and mechanical spring action for repeatedly ejecting the empty cartridge shell, introducing a new cartridge, and firing it syn see spontaneous -- au.to.mat.i.cal.ly adv -- au.to.ma.tic.i.ty n